Experience

<p><b>‘Before we face experience, that miserable enemy, let us have some more innocence, just for a while....''<br><br>INTRODUCED BY ZADIE SMITH</b><br><br>In this masterwork of literary memoir, Martin Amis tells the stories of his life, both the ordinary and the outlandish — from his bohemian childhood, through fame, fatherhood and divorce, to the news of a cousin brutally murdered, the agonising removal of all his teeth, the discovery of a long-lost daughter and, most poignantly, the death of his father, and fellow novelist Kingsley Amis. <br><br><br><b>**ONE OF THE <i>GUARDIAN</i>''S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURY**<br><br>''Martin Amis is a seriously good writer, and never on better form than now.<i> Experience</i>, the book of his life, may be <i>the </i>book of his life'' <i>Daily Telegraph</i></b></p>